The Brookhaven leader., 1887-08-25
MISCELLANEOUS.

II was stated III Kansas City on the 10th
that plans were fully prepared for the
building of a north and south railroad from
that city TO Sabine pass, on the Gulf of
Mexico. The work would be done by an
entirely new company of Eastern capital
lists
Two dynamite cartridges were exploded
on the West Glare railway bridge at Ennis,
ireland, on the 10Th. No serious damage
was done. Two other cartridges We're
found on the bridge, which had failed to ex-
plode. The town hall at Crusheen, County
Clare, was fired the same day, but no dam
age was done.
THE Canadian Pacific has taken steps in
the valley of the Red river, in Manitoba to
shut out the proposed Red River Valley
road. A conflict between the forces of the
two lines is feared.
THE free delivery system win be eX-
tended to the following poSt-ottices, begin
ming October |: Alexandra, Va, San
Diego, Cal, Charleston, w. Va, Hutchin-
son, Kan, New Castle, Pa, Middleton, n.
Y, Hudson, N. V, and Marquette, Mich.
An attempt to wreck a tram of the Ohio
q Mississippi at East st. Louis recently
was frustrated by Special Police Officer
Clancy. who discovered that a frog had
been tampered with.
THREE negro roustabouts were drowned
near Cincinnati the other night by the cap
sizing of their skiff.
Two men were killed and a third fatally
injured by falling earth in a mine near 1sh-
pemng, Mich, on the 18th.
BY the falling of part of an unfinished
trestle on an extension of the Ohio Valley
railway, eight miles south of Marion, KY,
on the 18th, the foreman, William McCar-
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killed. Three other men were seriously in
jured
SHERIFF CHARLES LYNCH, of Alpena, died
the other morning at the Detroit sanitari-
um from a shot wound In the leg, inflicted
by the notorious "Blinkey" Morgan.
Lynch planned and carried out the scheme
to capture "Blinkey'' and the others al
legged to be the murderers of Detective
Hulligan, of Cleveland His murderer is
now i'll Jail at Ravenna, o.
THE coroner's jury in the Chatsworth,
H., railroad disaster brought in verdict
throwing the blame on Timothy Coughlin,
foreman of section Z, and virtually exon
Grating the railroad company.
THE schooner Lizzie Wilson, from Balti-
more to Boston, was sunk recently off Bar
negat, N. j., by collision with the steam
snip Atlas. The wife and daughter of the
captain and two sailors were drowned.
PROF FOWLER, the phrenolOgist and
lecturer, died at Sharon, Conn, on the 18th,
of spinal trouble.
A TORNADO struck Republican City, Neb.,
on the evening of the 18th, doing much
damage and killing two men and injuring
five others.
SIX hundred coal miners of Laurel
County, KY, have struck for an increase of
half cent bushel for mining coal.
A THIRTY foot grindstone in Butcher Il
Gibbs plow works, at Canton, o., burst
the other day, killing Henry Pahsen, an
employe.
THE air brakes on the st. LOUIS, Chicago
4 Cincinnati express refused to work as
the tram entered Washington on the morn
ing of the 18th. A general wreck ensued,
the engineer being killed and many passen-
gers and the fireman injured.
THE Chicago express on the Cleveland &
Pittsburgh road jumped the track at
Bayard station, near Alliance, o., the other
morning wrecking one sleeper. The col
ored porter was killed and three other per-
sons were seriously wounded.
Ex-CoNFEDERATEs of Texas had a reunion
at Dallas on the nth.
FEARS were expressed in Ounalaska con-
cerning the safety of the revenue cutter
Bear The Bear was one of the Greely re-
lief ships.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's repOrt) for the
seven days ended August II numbered for
the United States, 1876; Canada, 26